12/6/12

       Today we finished part three of the movie. This part was mostly about the manufacturing of cars in China. China didn't have highways until about 20 years ago. I think they recently just started driving cars so that's why.The US gets all their cars from China. They are all manufactured there. Last year there was more than a million cars sold last year.

12/3/12

             Today in class we finished part 1 of the movie we're watching and we skipped part 2 so now we're watching part 3. I think its a really interesting movie. In part 3 it talked about how cars are kind of new to China. People used to just ride bikes everyone. So, a lot of older people don't know how to drive cars and are just learning how to drive at age 40. Even though there are less cars in China then there are in America there is more accidents in China. We also saw how one man who has a very good job and it takes a lot of skill gets paid $14 a day on a 77 hour work week. He gets payed better than most people in China but its crazy because his job is so much more advanced then most people but he makes pretty good money for being in China.

11/28/12

Today we finished the movie we started yesterday. Its a pretty interesting movie. It talked about how in China they only make $4.00 a day and usually its hard labor work. The women only make about $2-3 per day. A company in American opened up another company in China and 480 people lost their jobs in America because the Chinese were taking their jobs for this company. Its interesting to see how things like this can affect both of us even though we're competly different countries.

11/26/12

       Today I took my test i needed to make up from last Monday. It was an open blog test so it was pretty easy i think i did well. After that Mr. Schick told us we were going to have a speaker tomorrow named Gerry Sandusky and hes going to talk about how tough it is on him and his famliy with him having the same name as Jerry Sandusky, who is one of America's most known pedophile. His family and him gets a lot of hate and death threats also because people mistake him for the other Jerry Sandusky. Then we started watching a movie that seemed like it was going to be about how the different countries all support each other in a certain way but, we ran out of time so we only got about 5 minutes into the movie.

11/14/12

My partners were Parker Day and Austin Smith 

Mexico gained independence on September 16th, 1810. Mexico's history before they became independent was they had a war called the Mexican War of Independence which was fought between  Mexico and the Spanish. 

Saudi Arabia gained independence on September 23rd 1932. Saudi Arabia was founded by  Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. This country is leading in oil exports. 

The United Kingdom gained independence on April 12, 1927. The 

United Kingdom controlled other countries and didn't really have anyone controlling them. 

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Venezuela gained independence on July 5th 1811. Venezuela emerged from the collapse of Gran Columbia in 1830. 

4 countries of the uk 
whales
scotland
northern ireland 
great britian 

11/12/12

           Today in class we got our tests back from last week and i didn't do too well .We went over the tests and the answers and then mr schick told us hes going to be giving us an assignment soon that has to do with the countries and their leaders and how they benefit the united states.

11/9/12

          Today in class we had a quiz on the leaders again. We got to use our blog and I think I got the first part of the test all right but, not the back. I didn't have any of that on my blog.